My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
‘You appear to be astonished,’ he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. ‘Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.’
‘To forget it!’
‘You see,’ he explained, ‘I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.’
‘But the Solar System!’ I protested.
‘What the deuce is it to me?’ he interrupted impatiently: ‘you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a penny-worth of difference to me or to my work.’
‘You appear to be astonished,’ he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. ‘Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.’
‘To forget it!’
‘You see,’ he explained, ‘I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.’
‘But the Solar System!’ I protested.
‘What the deuce is it to me?’ he interrupted impatiently: ‘you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a penny-worth of difference to me or to my work.’
https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
nice TTS
give it a try https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
also https://github.com/santinic/audiblez
nice TTS
give it a try https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
also https://github.com/santinic/audiblez
huggingface.co
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M · Hugging Face
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-sheds-almost-600-billion-in-market-cap-biggest-drop-ever.html
Imagine DeepSeek releasing model just to short sell nvidia and make more money than any AI product will ever make
Imagine DeepSeek releasing model just to short sell nvidia and make more money than any AI product will ever make
CNBC
Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest one-day loss in U.S. history
Nvidia shares plunged 17% on Monday, resulting in a market cap loss of close to $600 billion, the biggest drop ever for a U.S. company.
I must not segfault. Uncertainty is the mind-killer. Exceptions are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will fully express my cases. Execution will pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will unwind the stack along its path. Where the cases are handled there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Almost got phished today if not for Bitwarden refusing to fill in password 💀
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-to-use-keywords-with-bookmarks
you can assign keywords to bookmarks in ff
never knew this existed
cc: https://lwn.net/Articles/1005332/
you can assign keywords to bookmarks in ff
never knew this existed
cc: https://lwn.net/Articles/1005332/
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Not Safe For Brain
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9
marcan.st
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
Update: Thank you everyone for all the heartfelt and encouraging emails in response to this post. I can’t reply to all of them, but I do read every single one. <3
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I…
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I…